A Remake of Godzilla vs Mechatron (if such a film exists).

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2013)

Sometimes there are movies that pretty much have no plot but are still a blast to watch, and Pacific Rim is one of those movies. In a way Pacific Rim does what the remake of Godzilla pretty much failed to do, and that was to pay tribute to the original Japenese monster movies where huge creates come out of the ocean and begin wrecking havoc on major metropolitan regions (and Tokyo simply seemed to be a magnet for that). In a way if one could say that this movie was a remake then it would probably be a remake of Godzilla vs Mechatron (if such a movie exists).
Basically huge monsters had been appearing out of the Pacific Ocean, and after wrecking havoc on a number of cities, humanity built giant mecha to do battle with them. However due to the fact that the human brain can not control a mecha by itself, they ended up designing them to have two pilots. At the beginning of the movie though one of the mecha messes us and they decided that they will scrap the program and instead build a massive wall around the Pacific Ocean.
The problem is that the wall simply does not work, so they decide to go back to fighting the monsters with the mecha, and also looking for a way to block the hole in the Pacific Ocean from where these monsters come. Basically other than this there is really not that much deep to write about the film. Okay, there are the standard themes of the value of team work, and also the idea that somehow we can belay the apocalypse through some rather ingenious plans, or through good old fashioned self-sacrifice, but then one shouldn't really think too deeply about a film that is about mecha beating up monsters.
Oh, yes, the film is set in Hong Kong, which is always a winner for me (as long as the film is a good film because there are plenty of films set in Hong Kong that are pretty ordinary, but this film isn't one of them) and it is pretty cool watching the mecha and the monster having a massive fight on Connaught Road in Central District (I love show off how I know the intricacies of Hong Kong). Oh, yes, I should mention that it is pretty slow going for the first half, but then when the monsters come out of Hong Kong harbour and the fight begins then, well, the gloves are off.